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Moreover, It Is Difficult To Reconcile Hobbes’s Distrust For The Individual With His Confidence In The Altruistic Nature Of The Individual Or Individuals Who Will Oversee And Control The Leviathan. Are Not The Latter Also Of Flesh And Blood? Hobbes Seems To Be Saying That Man’s Nature Cannot Be Trusted But The Nature Of A Ruler Or A Ruling Assembly Of Men Can Be Trusted. How So?

There Are Black Christians, And Black Muslims In Africa Who Are Being Slaughtered, They Don't Want To Hear About The Jim Crow Laws. There Are Christians, There Are Other Muslims Being Slaughtered In The Middle East, They Don't Need A Lecture From Obama About Christianity. The Fact Of The Matter Is Obama Is Not Doing Anything Effective Or Substantive To Stop Genocide In Our Time.

What Was To Be A Relatively Innocuous Federal Government, Operating From A Defined Enumeration Of Specific Grants Of Power, Has Become An Ever-present And Unaccountable Force. It Is The Nation’s Largest Creditor, Debtor, Lender, Employer, Consumer, Contractor, Grantor, Property Owner, Tenant, Insurer, Health-care Provider, And Pension Guarantor. Moreover, With Aggrandized Police Powers, What It Does Not Control Directly It Bans Or Mandates By Regulation.

Consequently, Citizen Legislators, Rotating Back To Their Communities After A Short Period Of Public Service—considered An Indispensable And Routine Characteristic And Design Of Representative Government At The Time Of The Founding, And For A Century Thereafter—have Been Replaced With A Professional Ruling Class Led By Governing Masterminds. For The Most Part, They Are Isolated From The Communities From Which They Hail And Are Consumed With The Daily Jockeying For Position And Power Within Their Ranks. Moreover, They Both Pander To And Lord Over Their Constituents.

The Seventeenth Amendment Serves Not The Public's Interest But The Interests Of The Governing Masterminds And Their Disciples. Its Early Proponents Advanced It Not Because They Championed 'democracy' Or The Individual, But Because They Knew It Would Be One Of Several Important Mechanisms For Empowering The Federal Government And Unraveling Constitutional Republicanism.